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August 19, 2024
William Upton
Data
Election 2024

DATA: 2 in 3 Say Tim Walz’s Stolen Valor is Serious Problem.

New election data reveals nearly two-thirds of voters believe that accusations Kamala Harris‘s 2024 running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), exaggerated his military record is a serious problem. According to the Rasmussen Reports survey, just 38 percent of respondents said the fact that Walz has embellished—in the best case—his military service is not a serious problem. Meanwhile, 55 percent said it is a very serious problem. Just six percent said they were not sure.

The data shows that among all age demographics, over 50 percent view Walz‘s exaggerations as a serious problem. Additionally, 54 percent of white voters say they have a problem with Walz’s military embellishments. Meanwhile, 55 percent of black voters agree. Among Hispanics the number sits at 67 percent.

Since being announced as the 2024 Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee, Walz‘s record as a member of the Minnesota National Guard has come under close scrutiny. The Minnesota Democrat appears to have falsely claimed the rank of command sergeant major, a title his former battalion leader—Lieutenant Colonel John Kolb—says he did not earn.

Additionally, despite allowing constituents and supporters to believe for years that he served in either Iraq or Afghanistan, records clearly show Walz was only ever deployed overseas to Italy. In fact, the Minnesota Democrat actually took early retirement after his unit became aware they would be deployed to Iraq—with Walz opting instead to run for Congress.

His service record isn’t the only embellishment regarding Walz‘s tenure in the National Guard. After a drunk driving arrest in 1995, Walz would falsely claim on the campaign trail that he failed the field sobriety test because of a misunderstanding due to hearing loss from his National Guard service.

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New election data reveals nearly two-thirds of voters believe that accusations Kamala Harris's 2024 running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), exaggerated his military record is a serious problem. According to the Rasmussen Reports survey, just 38 percent of respondents said the fact that Walz has embellished—in the best case—his military service is not a serious problem. Meanwhile, 55 percent said it is a very serious problem. Just six percent said they were not sure. show more
August 19, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
NatSec

Kamala’s VP Pick Walz Lauded Communism, Oppressive Chinese Regime to School Kids.

Kamala Harris‘s 2024 running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), praised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and lauded the ideals of international communism to students at Nebraska high school while teaching in the state during the 1990s. The pro-CCP remarks were published in a 1991 Alliance Times-Herald—a weekly newspaper published in Alliance, Nebraska—under the headline: “Letters from China.”

In the article, Walz extols the virtues of Chinese communism as a system where “everyone shares” and the state provides necessities to each citizen equally. “It means that everyone is the same and everyone shares,” Walz is quoted telling his high school students. He adds: “The doctor and the construction worker make the same. The Chinese government and the place they work for provide housing and 14 kg or about 30 pounds of rice per month. They get food and housing.”

Students at Alliance, Nebraska’s middle and high schools, exchanged letters with students in China, with some reflecting on the similarities and differences in their lives. Walz is also reported to have told his students about China’s one-child policy; however, the future Minnesota governor leaves out several critical details.

According to Walz, Chinese families who exceeded the one-child limit were merely taxed for each additional child. In actuality, the Chinese Communist state mandated many women to use contraception and engaged in forced abortions on women found not in compliance. Consequently, in other instances, women were sterilized against their will by the communist government.

Walz’s relationship with China has been a point of contention regarding his suitability to serve as vice president. The National Pulse reported last week that the House Oversight Committee has initiated an investigation into Walz over concerning connections to Chinese officials and operatives.

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Kamala Harris's 2024 running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), praised the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and lauded the ideals of international communism to students at Nebraska high school while teaching in the state during the 1990s. The pro-CCP remarks were published in a 1991 Alliance Times-Herald—a weekly newspaper published in Alliance, Nebraska—under the headline: "Letters from China." show more
August 19, 2024
William Upton
Breaking
Election 2024

BREAKING: Kamala Announces Back-Breaking Tax Hikes.

Kamala Harris is pledging to undo much of former President Donald J. Trump‘s tax cuts, including enacting her own proposal to raise the U.S. corporate tax rate to 28 percent. An increase in the corporate rate to 28 percent would put the United States on par with the average corporate tax rate among the economically struggling nations of Africa—with the continental average sitting at 27.37 percent. Meanwhile, the current North American average rate is 25.46 percent, while the comparable corporate rates in Europe and Asia sit at 19.92 percent and 19.80 percent, respectively.

In an interview with NBC News, James Singer—a spokesman for the Harris campaign—claimed the plan is “a fiscally responsible way to put money back in the pockets of working people and ensure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.” However, economists note that the higher rate would put the U.S. at a disadvantage to comparable nations around the globe in terms of tax competitiveness.

The announcement by the Harris campaign marks just the latest economic proposal to raise eyebrows and concerns among economists and America’s business class. Last week, Harris rolled out a plan to enact price controls on groceries, which was widely panned as dangerous and irresponsible—even by the ostensible Harris campaign allies in the corporate media.

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Kamala Harris is pledging to undo much of former President Donald J. Trump's tax cuts, including enacting her own proposal to raise the U.S. corporate tax rate to 28 percent. An increase in the corporate rate to 28 percent would put the United States on par with the average corporate tax rate among the economically struggling nations of Africa—with the continental average sitting at 27.37 percent. Meanwhile, the current North American average rate is 25.46 percent, while the comparable corporate rates in Europe and Asia sit at 19.92 percent and 19.80 percent, respectively. show more

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August 19, 2024
William Upton
Election 2024
Election Integrity

Another Election Integrity Win Secured In Georgia Ahead of the 2024 Vote.

The Georgia State Election Board voted three to two to adopt a new rule requiring the total number of votes cast to be reconciled with the total number of voters recorded for an election. If discrepancies in the count are discovered, the issue must be investigated, and a resolution must be found before the vote can be certified.

This marks the latest in a series of victories in Georgia for election integrity activists. Under the new rule, the State Election Board must meet within several days of an election to review precinct returns. In addition, the Board will oversee the compiling of a list of all voters who participated in a given election—including a breakdown by category of those “who voted Election Day In Person, Advanced Voting, Absentee and Provisionally.” The rule also adds that the number of “unique voter IDs from each precinct shall be counted.”

According to the rule, the total number of votes cast in each precinct will then be reconciled with the total number of votes counted in the same precinct. “In any precinct in which the number of ballots exceeds the number of unique votes, the Board shall determine the method of voting in which the discrepancy exists,” the new Georgia rule reads.

If the error cannot be resolved, “the Board shall determine a method to compute the votes justly” according to state law. If fraud is discovered, the Board is required to report its findings to the relevant district attorney.

The National Pulse reported in July that the Georgia State Election Board will also require local election officials to reconcile the number of votes cast with the number of ballots counted at the end of each day of early voting.

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The Georgia State Election Board voted three to two to adopt a new rule requiring the total number of votes cast to be reconciled with the total number of voters recorded for an election. If discrepancies in the count are discovered, the issue must be investigated, and a resolution must be found before the vote can be certified. show more
August 19, 2024
William Upton
Economy
Election 2024

Top Obama Economist Slams Kamala’s Pricing Policies as ‘Not Sensible.’

A top economist who served in the Barack Obama government is blasting Kamala Harris‘s price control plan—among other economic proposals—as being “not sensible policy.” Jason Furman, an economist and professor at Harvard University who served as the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council under Obama, is warning that Harris’s proposal to cap the prices of grocery items could pose significant market disruptions and lead to unintended consequences for consumers.

Furman noted that if prices are not allowed to rise with demand, companies could instead choose to constrict supply, meaning fewer goods will enter the market for consumers to purchase. “This not sensible policy and I think the biggest hope is that it ends up being a lot of rhetoric and no reality,” the Harvard economist said in a recent interview.

What Furman details is a scenario that has played out in other countries that have engaged in aggressive price controls, which resulted in a drastic reduction in available food supplies. This has resulted in so-called breadlines in countries like Venezuela and the former Soviet Union.

Even the Washington Post‘s far-left columnist Catherine Rampell has panned the idea. “At best, this would lead to shortages, black markets and hoarding, among other distortions seen previous times countries tried to limit price growth by fiat,” she wrote. “At worst, it might accidentally raise prices.”

Price controls can also impact the market beyond just the cost of goods. The National Pulse reported last week that when former President Richard Nixon enacted wage and price controls in 1971, the economy went into what has been termed “The Nixon Shock.”

The aftermath saw the U.S. dollar plunge by nearly a third of its value during the 1970s, and stagflation crippled the U.S. economy throughout the decade.

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A top economist who served in the Barack Obama government is blasting Kamala Harris's price control plan—among other economic proposals—as being "not sensible policy." Jason Furman, an economist and professor at Harvard University who served as the Deputy Director of the National Economic Council under Obama, is warning that Harris's proposal to cap the prices of grocery items could pose significant market disruptions and lead to unintended consequences for consumers. show more
August 19, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Election 2024
Health

Vasectomies in High Demand at DNC as Planned Parenthood Offers Free Snips, Abortions.

Planned Parenthood is offering free abortions and vasectomies at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), with The New York Times saying so many Democrat men want to be sterilized that “there is already a waiting list.” The procedures are being offered at a mobile health center just a few blocks from the convention venue in Chicago, Illinois.

“There are going to be people traveling to Chicago from all over the country, and I think we should be doing what we can as health care providers to show what the impact of good policy and bad policy is,” said Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, of the initiative.

The Biden-Harris government-funded abortionist is offering the procedures to anyone in the vicinity of the convention, whether or not they are a delegate, with Jess Bidgood of The New York Times stressing there is “much interest” in vasectomies.

An 18-foot-tall inflatable mascot shaped like an intrauterine device (IUD), dubbed ‘Freeda Womb,’ is also traveling to the convention, which is sponsored by Americans for Contraception.

These showings underline the increasing links between the Democrats and anti-child, anti-family ideology. The National Pulse previously reported that corporate media allies of presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris viciously attacked former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, for his support of the Child Tax Credit in July.

“Let’s tax the things that are bad and not tax the things that are good,” Vance said in 2021, arguing that families with children “should pay a different, lower tax rate”—which is how the Child Tax Credit works.

Harris’s boosters at ABC News mischaracterized Vance as wanting to impose punitive taxes on Americans without biological children—like Harris.

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Planned Parenthood is offering free abortions and vasectomies at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), with The New York Times saying so many Democrat men want to be sterilized that "there is already a waiting list." The procedures are being offered at a mobile health center just a few blocks from the convention venue in Chicago, Illinois. show more
August 19, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Culture
Election 2024

Democrats’ Woke 2024 Platform Opens by Declaring America Is Built on Stolen Land.

The 2024 Democratic Party Platform opens with a “land acknowledgment,” stating that the United States of America was established on territory stolen from the Native American tribes. “We honor the communities native to this continent, and recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands,” the document states, adding that the Democratic Nation Committee “pay[s] our respects to the millions of Indigenous people throughout history who have protected our lands, waters, and animals.”

The platform, which the Democrats will vote to endorse alongside presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Chicago, Illinois, over the coming days, further acknowledges that the Chicago area, specifically, comprises “the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, also known as the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations.”

The Democrats also “acknowledge the many other tribes who consider this area their traditional homeland, including the Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Kickapoo, and Mascouten.”

The “traditional homelands” of the American Indians changed hands between the native tribes over generations of warfare long before the arrival of the first European settlers. Much of the Great Sioux Nation, which warred with the United States through the 19th century, was established on territory the Sioux had stolen from the Crow tribe, for instance.

The first English colony in North America was established in 1585 on Roanoke Island, modern-day North Carolina, on land where the regional ruler, Powhatan, had exterminated the local tribe. He did so in deference to a prophecy that he would be overthrown by a nation arising from the area and massacred the English colonists after their ships sailed away for the same reason. This set the stage for the Anglo-Powhatan Wars when more Englishmen arrived to establish the Jamestown colony.

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The 2024 Democratic Party Platform opens with a "land acknowledgment," stating that the United States of America was established on territory stolen from the Native American tribes. "We honor the communities native to this continent, and recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands," the document states, adding that the Democratic Nation Committee "pay[s] our respects to the millions of Indigenous people throughout history who have protected our lands, waters, and animals." show more
August 19, 2024
William Upton
Economy
Election 2024

Massive Revision to U.S. Employment Numbers Expected on Wednesday.

The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is expected to issue a major revision to employment numbers on Wednesday. The agency is set to announce its preliminary benchmark revision to the 2024 establishment survey.

Some preliminary estimates and indicators suggest the agency could announce a downward revision of around one million jobs between April 2023 and March 2024.

A downward revision of the one million jobs would suggest that the U.S. job market and economy are far weaker than the corporate media and Biden-Harris government has let on. Further, the revision will likely fuel additional concerns that the BLS and other agencies under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have essentially ‘cooked the books’ to the ultimate detriment of the American people.

Such dramatic revisions are rare but not unprecedented. Earlier this year, the nonpartisan California Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) released data showing that all of the state’s reported job gains were, in fact, unrealized. While the state had reported significant job gains throughout the year, the LAO data revealed that the early benchmarks used to estimate job numbers in the state skewed the data in too positive a direction.

The National Pulse reported earlier this month that the July jobs report fell significantly short of estimates, though an unexpected jump in the national unemployment rate may be the more significant data point.

July’s unemployment spike suggests to some economists that the U.S. has entered a recession based on the Sahm Rule, named for a former Federal Reserve economist. The rule dictates a recession is underway if the unemployment rate—based on a three-month moving average—jumps by half a percent from its low in the past year.

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The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is expected to issue a major revision to employment numbers on Wednesday. The agency is set to announce its preliminary benchmark revision to the 2024 establishment survey. show more
August 19, 2024
William Upton
Culture
Election 2024

Tim Walz Advised Pro-LGBTQ Group That Discussed Sexuality With School Kids.

Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), the Democratic Party’s 2024 vice presidential nominee, was pushing LGBTQ gender ideology over 25 years ago as a Minnesota high school teacher in 1999. Kamala Harris‘s current running mate served as the faculty advisor to a “gay-straight alliance” group described as a “safe space” for students to discuss their sexual orientation.

The gay-straight alliance was born from the efforts of five or six students looking to promote “Gay Awareness Day” in the school. Over 150 students said they’d walk out if a day were dedicated to discussing sexual orientation—something many found inappropriate for the high school environment. However, with Walz‘s assistance, the handful of students were able to force an all-student assembly where their classmates heard guest speakers discuss LGBTQ issues.

Many parents took their children out of school during the event. Addressing Walz‘s role in the student LGBTQ organization, former gay-straight alliance member Laura Matson told the Washington Post that the Minnesota Democrat “was really steadfast in his support.” She said Walz was always available to the handful of students to discuss sexuality and give guidance, insisting: “It was important to learn how to be an ally and how to have conversations around identity at a young age.”

After entering politics, Walz continued his support for the LGBTQ agenda, including signing a sprawling human rights law as governor that removed explicit language barring pedophiles from being considered a protected class in the state.

Additionally, Walz has made Minnesota a so-called ‘transgender sanctuary state’—going so far as to legislatively bar children present in the state and undergoing gender transition from being returned to a parent living out of state.

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Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), the Democratic Party's 2024 vice presidential nominee, was pushing LGBTQ gender ideology over 25 years ago as a Minnesota high school teacher in 1999. Kamala Harris's current running mate served as the faculty advisor to a "gay-straight alliance" group described as a "safe space" for students to discuss their sexual orientation. show more
August 19, 2024
Election 2024

Tim Walz Lied About His DWI Arrest.

Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), Kamala Harris‘s 2024 running mate, reportedly lied to voters during his initial run for Congress regarding his 1995 arrest for drunk and reckless driving. During the 2006 election, Walz’s campaign claimed that his failed field sobriety test and subsequent arrest over a decade earlier resulted from a misunderstanding due to his hearing loss from National Guard service, claiming that Walz drove himself to the station.

However, the recent release of court transcripts reveals the then-Nebraska resident admitted before a judge to have been drinking when a state trooper stopped him for driving 96 mph in a 55 mph zone. A blood test revealed a blood alcohol level surpassing the legal limit.

Contrary to Walz‘s claim that he drove to the state police station himself, the police report shows a state trooper transported the 2024 Democratic Party vice presidential nominee to a hospital for the blood test and subsequently to the Dawes County Jail, a fact corroborated by the Nebraska State Patrol. The Harris-Walz campaign has not publicly addressed the newest revelations.

Walz’s attempt to obfuscate the details of his 1995 arrest is just one of several instances in which the Minnesota Democrat has either withheld or embellished aspects of his political and personal life. The National Pulse reported earlier this week that Walz was slammed by the former commander of his Minnesota National Guard battalion over his claims that he achieved the rank of command sergeant major.

Lieutenant Colonel John Kolb says the Democrat “did not earn the rank,” and that his early retirement—which allowed him to avoid being deployed to Iraq—improved his unit by making way for superior leadership.

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Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), Kamala Harris's 2024 running mate, reportedly lied to voters during his initial run for Congress regarding his 1995 arrest for drunk and reckless driving. During the 2006 election, Walz's campaign claimed that his failed field sobriety test and subsequent arrest over a decade earlier resulted from a misunderstanding due to his hearing loss from National Guard service, claiming that Walz drove himself to the station. show more